Asaf Zamir – Chief Technology Officer & AI/Cloud Consultant. Founder of CloudExpat, AZdev. Author of Coder to CTO.

In the past 10 years (or so), I've been taking old
computers (desktops, laptops), and putting Linux on them.
Mainly because Microsoft's philosophy with Windows is a very one size fits all approach, and also because Windows had a general bad reputation when it comes to old machines (security holes, anyone?).
As for friends & family, it was also very difficult for me to convince them that if they'll switch, they could get 2+ more years out of their machines.

The new Google Nexus is out,
with 2.3 GHz processor, Android 4.4
8 MP camera, it's a sweet deal for 399 Euro (for the 32GB model).

Django Serializers are suppose to take entries from your DB
and serialize in either Json or XML.
The problem is, they’re not very customizable,
and their defaults are not what I was looking for.

I've been developing for Drupal for many years now (about 8),
but it was only for the first year that I used it with my own projects.
Afterwards I only used Drupal when clients demanded it.
Why did I never choose Drupal for my own projects?
Because when a choice was given,
I had no reason to use it - I can code.

Snippets are small chunks of code usually used again and again in different settings.
For instance, in order too see what a variable holds in PHP you write